Ok, thanks.

There are a simple mode for emulate this behaviour?

Cleber

Em 08/11/2012 19:25, Thomas Lumley escreveu:
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Cleber N.Borges <kle...@yahoo.com.br 
> <mailto:kle...@yahoo.com.br>> wrote:
>
>     Hello useRs,
>
>     The results of the SORT function differ from Scilab/Matlab for
>     Complex Numbers in my example.
>     This design is the desirable in R?
>
>
> Well, it's deliberate and documented.
>
> R sorts complex numbers by real part then by imaginary part.  Matlab, 
> according to its documentation, sorts by modulus then phase.
>
> There isn't a unique way to sort complex numbers, so you're going to 
> get differences.  Personally, I think the R method is more 
> straightforward, since you don't need to decide and remember where the 
> branch cut goes on the phase coordinate.
>
>    -thomas
>
> -- 
> Thomas Lumley
> Professor of Biostatistics
> University of Auckland


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